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Don't Look Away -- The Siege of Gaza Must End

Kathy Kelly | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: International Flotilla, Mavi Marmara, Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, Gaza Siege, Israeli Blockade, USA Boat to Gaza, Israeli-Palestiian Conflict, Israel, Palestine, Rafah, World News

The Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, amounting to what is internationally recognized as an apartheid system, could end in peace, with Israel abandoning paranoia and racial violence to allow peace.

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Egypt Gaza Border Reopened Permanently

AP | IBRAHIM BARZAK | Posted 07.28.2011

Read More: Gaza, Egypt, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Rafah, Egypt Gaza Border, Rafah Border Crossing, World News

RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Egypt lifted a 4-year-old blockade of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, greatly easing travel restrictions on the 1.5 million resi...

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Gaza Diaries: Leaving a Legacy of Seeds

Salena Tramel | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Rural Womens Development Society, Seeds, Palestine, Grassroots International, World News, Rafah, World News

In late 2009, Gaza's first seed bank was established and opened. Since then, more than 200 registered women members of the Rural Women's Development Society have established 10 seed-saving units benefiting upwards of 1000 people.

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Missile From Gaza Hits School Bus, Israel Retaliates

AP | By ARON HELLER | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Israel-Gaza-Border, Israeli Settlements, Turkey, West Bank, Gaza, Palestinians, Hamas, Qatar, Gaza City, Ukraine, Iron Dome, Gaza Strip, Shimon Peres, Egypt, Jewish Settlements, Rafah, Gaza Missiles, Israel, World News

JERUSALEM -- An anti-tank missile fired from the Gaza Strip struck a school bus in southern Israel Thursday, wounding two people, one of them critical...

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Egypt Tremors Felt in Gaza

Bill_Corcoran | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gaza, Cairo, Egypt, Rafah, Palestinians, Anera, Israel, Humanitarian Aid, Tahrir, World News

There is little doubt the events unfolding in Cairo are reverberating across the region. Gaza, which shares a border with Egypt, has already felt it.

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Hamas Compound Blast In Gaza Wounds Women And Children

AP | IBRAHIM BARZAK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Mahmoud Abbas, Gaza City, Hamas Militants, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Hamas, Rafah, Hamas Compound Explosion, World News

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A huge blast Wednesday at a Hamas military base in southern Gaza lightly injured more than a dozen people, including chi...

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Israel and the Flotilla: On the Dangers of a Binary View

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Shoah, Pbs, The Partition, Gaza Blockade, Turkey, Gaza, Pehr Granqvist, Hamas, Jose Liht, Israeli Defense Force, Holocaust Deniers, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Rafah, Immanuel Kant, Ummah, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Media Watch, Holocaust, Suicide Bombers, Terrorism, Pakistan, Noah Efron, Gaza Flotilla, Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowships, Robert Satloff, Templeton Foundation, Darfur, Lahore, Fraser Watts, Operation Cast Lead, Bar Ilan University, Riyadh, Muslim, Among-the-Righteous, Cambridge University, Tom Friedman, Itamar Marcus, Ahmadiyya Movement, Thomas Friedman, Kathleen Taylor, World News

When will we understand that Israel's security problem is everyone's security problem, that a threatened Jew is a threatened Muslim?

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Gaza Freedom March Members Gain a Small Taste of the Palestinian Experience

Kathy Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza Freedom March, Hosni Mubarak, Gaza Strip, Gaza City, Gaza, Egypt, Rafah, World News

Gaza Freedom March participants are calling their supporters around the world to contact Egyptian embassies and urge them to free the marchers and allow them to proceed to Gaza.

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Gaza Freedom March Blocked by Egypt

Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gaza Freedom March, Gaza-Egypt Border, Gaza, Egypt, Rafah, Rafah Crossing, Israel, World News

Citing escalating tensions on the Gaza-Egypt border, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry just informed us that the Rafah border will be closed over the coming weeks, into January.

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Egypt Blocks 1,200 From Entering Gaza To Protest Israeli Closures

AFP | Adel Zaanoun (AFP) â€“ 8 Hours Ago | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestine, Erez, Gaza, Solidarity, Palestinians, Middle East, Hamas, Peace, Gaza Freedom March, Gaza Strip, Two State Solution, Human Rights, Cairo, Egypt, Rafah, Rafah Crossing, Zionism, Israel, World News

EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip -- Hundreds of people including international activists protested on both sides of a Gaza Strip border crossing on Thursday ...

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Can Soccer Shoes Open the Blockade of Gaza?

Donna Baranski-Walker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rebuilding Alliance, Donations, Israel, Gaza, Soccer, Rafah, Rachel Corrie Ramadan Soccer Tournament, World News

The Rebuilding Alliance, the organization I founded to rebuild war-torn communities, just sent a shipment of sports shoes donated by hundreds of people for Gaza. Will our shipment make it through the blockade? Will it make a difference?

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Gaza's Mud Homes Build Hope

Salena Tramel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestine, Gaza Blockade, Gaza, Rafah, Green Building, Architecture, Adobe, Refugees, Advocacy, World News, World News

Not only are some of the ideas coming out of Gaza extremely creative, but they also present a modern twist on working with indigenous knowledge and the environment.

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Egypt-Gaza Border-Crossing A Soap Opera Filming Set

Salena Tramel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestine, Gaza, Egypt, Foreign Affairs, Palestinians, Rafah, Rafah Border Crossing, Advocacy, Gaza Entry, World News

The Egyptians are world famous for their soap operas. And this Monday, I accidentally ran into one of these productions in full swing ... at the Rafah border-crossing into Gaza from Egypt.

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Gaza Tunnels: Smugglers Back At Work

The Independent | Donald Macintyre in Rafah | Posted 05.25.2011

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Some Gazans are working to restart - or are continuing with - the smuggling of contraband under the Gaza-Egypt border, despite the hundreds of Israeli...

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On The Ground In Rafah: Egypt Sends Mixed Messages

GlobalPost.com | Theodore May | Posted 05.25.2011

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RAFAH, Egypt - The town of Rafah and the Gaza border crossing just down the road told two different stories Thursday about how the Egyptian governme...

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